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Looks to be coppery amber with good clarity and persistent beads of carbonation. It has a rough skim of white head on the top and aromas of perfumy, coppery hops: Bakewell tart, cherries and sweet crystal malts. It tastes dry but has every suggestion of sweetness without actually being sweet. Tasty with coppery bitterness leading to a lengthy hoppy finish. Delightful stuff.

From a 330ml bottle on 19/2/2015. Pours a quite cloudy golden with a big fluffy head. Has a quite distinct fruity yeasty aroma. Flavour wise, it features lots of sweet citrus and stone fruit (orange, mandarin, peach) over a light biscuit malt backbone, with a pretty firm sharpish bitterness finishing it off. Medium body and lively carbonation. A very solid, enjoyable pale with exemplary packaging.

Remarkable presentation. Aroma is strong on lychees, passion fruit and grapes, but flavour is much more grassy, citrus, razor sharp hoppy bitter. Very bitter...Good APA, but still not enough to bring me back from the grave.

Pours amber with a large lasting head.
Nose shows lychee, peach, floral hops, light clean malt, grapes and pear. Very vibrant.
Flavours show less of the fruit but more spicy, grassy and herbal notes alongside some delicate malt.

Unsure how this one slots into the Tuatara line-up but love the label none-the-less. It produces a radiant and sparkling deep burnished orange with fine, intermittent carbonation. Head is up more than an inch in height, but falls with dramatic speed to a mess of sudsy foam. Piney, deeply resinous and floral nose wringing with pine-needles, nettles, rose petals, lavender and blood orange. All hops on the palate with a void in the middle that screams "INSERT MALT HERE!". Raspy and sharp, weedy and grassy with a bitter citrus peel and grapeskin astringency to add to the chaos. It softens and dulls quickly but the aftertaste remains. Kind of, well actually is, hard to drink. I can’t get into this at all. One-sided and one-dimensional! (33cL, BB 01/04/15, The Liquor Shed, Jandakot)

Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours deep orange with a sticky beige and bubbly head. Nose immediately shows mandarin before some bubblegum, citric pith and pineapple come out. Taste is quite apricot driven with mild citric zest, pineapple and resin. A fair whack of biscuit malts in this which take away from the fruits a little too much. It comes across very malty to finish which I don’t dig very much. I feel like the vibrancy of the nose doesn’t get portrayed in the taste. Not my kind of pale

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